March 13, 2008

Like selling kisses for charity at a county fair, the lovely Scarlett auctioned off two tickets to spend a premiere evening with her, at the opening of He's Just Not That IntoYou. ebay hosted the auction, with 100% of the profits going to international charity Oxfam.

According to the Press Association, the beautiful actress said, “The winner of the charity auction will not only get to attend the premiere, but 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to supporting Oxfam and its work, so please bid high!”

February 10, 2008

Scarlett joins many other singers and actors, including Will.i.am, of the Blackeyed Peas and Herbie Hancock, in a moving song supporting Senator Obama (and using the Senator's words from speeches). Here's a link...youtube

April 13, 2007

Today is the 14th annual MS Gala, The Race to Erase, sponsored by the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis. An auction, at www.charityfolks.com will continue until the 24th of this month, and includes a gorgeous gold bag from the personal collection of Ms. Johansson.

March 29, 2007

Jai-Alai Savant is a band from Chicago, with a stop-over in Philadelphia, that has written a song called.

"Scarlett Johansson, Why Don't You Love Me?"

They sound quite a bit like the Police, and they recently told Esquire.com about the song.

"Judging from your song "Scarlett Johansson Why Don't You Love Me," you appear to have a crush on Esquire's reigning Sexiest Woman Alive.

I do. However, the song has nothing to do with her. The idea behind the song was a story about a dude who uses escapist fantasy of dating a celebrity to distract himself from actually having to deal with his failed relationship. I simply chose her name because what better celeb is there to fantasize about than Scarlett? I'd be lying if I said I wasn't also hoping that maybe by some strange chance she'd hear the song, enjoy it, and come see us play.

Let's say that happens. What would you do next?

I'd take her someplace special where no one would recognize her, like Melino's, my favorite hoagie joint in Philly. Then maybe to some hidden park to have a picnic and feed ducks or something. I honestly wouldn't care where we went so long as it was quiet and we were free of distractions so I could get to know her better and listen to her talk in that foxy, raspy ass voice of hers. Hopefully, the date would end with some kissing.

March 28, 2007

"Creole? Really? How fascinating. So is there still that whole voodoo thing?"

The young waiter from the island of Mauritius stood tongue-tied in the dining room of the Spa Hotel in Kent, England, baffled by the movie star who was focused on his French accent instead of his list of Frenchified entrées—trout millefeuille and tenderloin en croute. He did not understand why his native dialect made her think of black magic, Mardi Gras, and dolls with pins.

"You know, voodoo? Witchcraft? Is that part of the culture?" Her voice lowered coaxingly. "You can tell us."

Scarlett Johansson has a habit of talking forcefully and teasingly to strangers, charging past her own youth and soft, delectable looks to establish a beachhead of individuality. The waiter, the driver, an autograph-seeking fan, a man giving directions on the street…all are treated with the same kind of good-natured raillery.

It's a way of putting the world on notice that the 22-year-old is an adult, not a kid; an experienced actress, not a starlet; a born-and-bred New Yorker, not a Beverly Hills bimbo. In life, and increasingly in movies, Johansson is not the ingenue; she is the star. Her voluptuous looks and famously full lips are almost defiant in a culture that fetishizes the slighter silhouettes of Keira Knightley, Kirsten Dunst, and Natalie Portman. Woody Allen, who directed her in Match Point and Scoop, describes her as "criminally sexy." When asked in an E-mail if she could be compared to any movie stars of yore, the director replied, "She is unlike anyone who has come before her,
and while she is a much stronger actress in every way, there is a tiny bit of Marilyn Monroe in her zoftig humidity."

"Scarlett Letters" has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the April 2006 issue of Vogue.

March 25, 2007

A beauty even by Hollywood standards, Scarlett Johansson says she has no bias against plastic surgery for herself, or others, if that is what they want. She doesn't want to become an "old hag" (not likely tohappen soon... anyway...)

The talented young star of Lost In Translation and the new Nanny Diaries, also a spokesperson for L'Oreal cosmetics, says that she wants to age gracefully,
and if surgery will help with that, so what?

"I will definitely have plastic surgery--I don't want to become an old hag!

"I think if you're comfortable with yourself, that's sexy, but if you're not then go for it."